TheJediBrah
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Any danger of the Heat fielding one cleanly or taking a catch?
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stephen
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Never!
Starfighter
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I just expect Finch to fail miserably. Don't know why, but he rarely lets me down.
TheJediBrah
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'Gades could be 5 for 10 and still chase this.
#batting depth
#batting depth
Prince EWS
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Steketee's gather/action seems to get more Flintoffesque every time I watch him play. It's almost to the point where it has to be deliberate -- it's too idiosyncratic to be a coincidence IMO.
Starfighter
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Looks pretty much the same as when I first saw him IMO. The resemblance was striking though.
Second Spitter
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Hope Sweps gets a run in the T20I team. He's a significant upgrade over Zampa.
Prince EWS
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Haha yeah it's classic stathead really. Some of them are really interesting and provide good insight, but some of them are just completely useless coincidences, and sadly it's usually the latter that the appointed "stats commentators" seem to ****ing love.
Gnske
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Doesn't have that gusto though, or that lean back.
Or that annoying spot in his hair that gave Flintoff power for one whole series.
Prince EWS
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Yeah I think it's the lean back that's been getting more Flintoffesque as time has gone on. He's always had the arms/windup going, but the lean back is getting closer as well.
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BTW, what's with Gilchrist's sickening sycophantic commentary about McCullum?
He had a crap game with the bat and his team got smashed, yet Gilly repeatedly talked him up as a genius all night.
Makes James Brayshaw & Michael Slater seem like neutral commentators by comparison.
He had a crap game with the bat and his team got smashed, yet Gilly repeatedly talked him up as a genius all night.
Makes James Brayshaw & Michael Slater seem like neutral commentators by comparison.
He is a genius, in a cricket sense. One off night shouldn't change it.
TheJediBrah
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Gilly's just a super nice guy, and obviously loves McCullum (who doesn't though)
Zinzan
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That's fine, so save the praise for when he & the team he's captaining are actually do well, like the 1st game, I had no problem with the Gilly love then.
But last night, he had an off-night, and so did his side, so the sycophant level should have been down a notch.
GoodAreasShane
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I always cringe when I hear McCullum talked up as some sort of paragon of sportsmanship and virtue. Just look at how he got the NZ captaincy in the first place, Ross Taylor was being systematically undermined for most of his leadership stint.
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To be fair on him, not sure much blame for that debacle can be pinned on McCullum. Hesson & NZC far more so for the diabolical communication and manner in which it was done, and Taylor himself from the point of view that he wasn't up to the captaincy mark.